{"id":21052,"date":"2017-05-18T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=21052"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"the-perfect-first-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2017\/05\/18\/the-perfect-first-half\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect First Half&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the leadership of Michael Laudrup this was in the period when we were a superb side with the likes of Michu and Pablo Hernandez causing havoc on more than one occasion but I dont think many who arrived at the Liberty that evening expected what unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>The Baggies were being tipped for European football after a superb start to the season but found themselves two down inside eleven minutes with goals from Michu and Routledge as the Swans crisp passing style over run the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Routledge added another before half time but the wind was taken a little out of our sails by an injury time goal from Lukaku to reduce the deficit and the second half never reached the heights of the first.<\/p>\n<p>Laudrup was clear in his praise after the game &#8220;The first half was one of the few times as a manager that you are just watching the game, it was a delightful, it was fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also saw the quality and attitude but the mental part is important too because they scored late in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a great team performance and I don&#8217;t want to single out any individual performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody was great to watch. We have the momentum and we want to keep it now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It may not have been our biggest Premier League win or even our most important one but for me it remains the best 45 minutes of football I have seen us play &#8211; what would we give for more of the same on Sunday?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PtmlAKUU9_Y<\/p>\n<p><#wba><copyrightAction Images><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the leadership of Michael Laudrup this was in the period when we were a superb side with the likes of Michu and Pablo Hernandez causing havoc on more than one occasion but I dont think many who arrived at the Liberty that evening expected what unfolded. The Baggies were being tipped for European football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}